How Attorneys Choose Law Firms
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How to use a legal search firm
Tailoring Legal Search to Meet Your Firm's Needs All things considered, legal recruiting is a fairly young...
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8 Ways to Ensure You Hire Stars
Far too many legal-hiring organizations fail to hire stars because their hiring process actually prevents...
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Interviewing a Law Firm: Distinctions that Make the Difference
I recently asked a managing partner (who is actively in the market for lateral partners) how his firm...
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How we make a living
Providing Insider Knowledge and Counseling Professional search consultants receive their fees from the...
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How BCG finds jobs
Introduction BCG Attorney Search maintains the largest and most up-to-date database of attorney-job...
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How BCG Screens Candidates
Hiring organizations are often surprised to learn that more than 50 percent of the work done by our...
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Why use a consultant?
Top 10 Reasons to Use a Professional Search Consultant There are numerous reasons to use a legal recruiter....
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The benefits of a retained search
There are several methods that law firms typically use to make acquisitions at the partner level. These...
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Should you choose bcg?
Yes, if you want a search firm that's focused and instinctively knows the appropriate steps to take while...
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What makes a world class recruiter
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to address the question of what makes a world class legal...
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LL.Ms and marketability
Many attorneys spend tens of thousands of dollars to obtain an LL.M. in a particular discipline after they...
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Guide to intellectual property law
Probably the hottest practice group in all respects for the past several years has been intellectual property...
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Meltdown in corporate work
Since late 2000, as every attorney knows, there has been a marked slowdown in the amount of available...
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Changing your practice area
So You Want to Switch Your Practice Area? In a lot of respects, the path attorneys take to joining a...
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The 'dark Side' Of Going In House
Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide you with insight as to whether or not you should go...
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To Clerk or not to clerk
Every year, we receive numerous phone calls from practicing attorneys as well as law students, inquiring...
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''Firm hopping''
Most attorneys from large firms move at least once or twice during their first three to five years of...
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Ensure your lateral move is a success
You have spent many hours planning your job search with your recruiter, picking the right firms, and...
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Relocating Overseas
In recent years, a good number of American attorneys have relocated overseas. These relocations have been...
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Moving your career to another city
BCG Guide to Relocation There is nothing more exciting than leaving one area of the country and going to a...
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Taking a hiatus from practicing law
It is becoming increasingly common for attorneys desiring more than a few weeks off from the practice of law...
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Law School grades and your career
Grades are important to many law firms when making hiring decisions. However, the weight that they carry in...
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Salary wars and associate hiring
As a recruiting firm, we talk to both partners and associates at firms in every major legal marketplace on a...
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Treating your legal career like a small business
At the outset, it is important to realize that much of what I am saying goes against the traditional view of...
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The importance of fitting in
One of the most persistent mistakes legal professionals make is to not understand the importance of fitting in...
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Builders and destroyers
In every organization, there are people who are positive forces that lead, inspire, and build and others who...
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The interview quandary
Should You Talk About Other Interviews in Your Interview? One of the questions I receive quite often from the...
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Resume writing from the experts
Introduction A good resume is an extremely important tool in the job-search process. Because firms are...
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Firm culture matters most
We believe that an attorney's happiness and success in the practice of law have more to do with a particular...
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